The Serial Preferences Program, "SerPrefs"

The "SerPrefs" program allows you to set the serial port preferences
for the new driver "ibmser.device.  It is CLI only, and you can put it 
anywhere convenient on your system, for example in the c: directory. 
If you specify a set of preferences using this program, a 1K file is 
saved into your "S:" directory containing those preferences.  Then,
each time the "ibmser.device" is opened by any program, those 
preferences are loaded in (you don't need "SerPrefs" again for this,
it is done automatically).

Note that you really do not need this program if you are using any 
typical terminal program that resets the serial device to stored 
presets.  Most terminal programs already do this.

The Serial Preferences Program, SerPrefs, is useful, however, if you
want to only copy data from the command line to "SER:" (using IOWedge)
and have not previously opened the "ibmser.device" with a terminal 
program.  To get example usage information, just type "SerPrefs" with
no arguments.  You will see the following information displayed:


Example use: SerPrefs myser u=0 baud=38400 parity=none handshake=cts   

	*  Options for PARITY: NONE, EVEN, and ODD.                
                           
	*  Options for HANDSHAKE: NONE, CTS, and XOFF.                 
             
	*  The FIFO option should normally be set to 0, which means
	   "default mode".
        
	*  Use the DUMP option to view all preferences (or just one
	   if UNIT is used).


The dump option will list the current settings of the device and unit
number you specify. You type in the name of the new serial device in
place of "myser" in the command line. The name can be typed in as, 
for example, either "ibmser.device" or just "ibmser".

To see the full template for SerPrefs, type "SerPrefs ?".  You will 
see the following information listed:


DEVICE/A, U=UNIT/K/N, B=BAUD/K/N, D=DATA/K/N, S=STOP/K/N, P=PARITY/K,
H=HANDSHAKE/K, FIFO/K/N, DUMP/S

For a full description of AmigaDOS command line templates, see your
AmigaDOS manual.